of the
Content in the RDA-MARC map in the Toolkit.
Thomas Brenndorfer
Guelph Public Library
From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access
[RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kathie Coblentz [kcobl...@nypl.org]
Sent: September-20-13 12:54 PM
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OK, the very next thing I picked up to catalog is one of a series of "illegible
books" by the Italian Futurist artist Bruno Munari: "Libro illeggibile N.Y. 1."
There is NO text except for the back flap of the book jacket (which,
admittedly, is a pretty integral part of the volume in this case, s
J. McRee Elrod wrote:
> Thomas proposed:
>
> >Extent: 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages)
> >Dimensions: 24 cm
> >Colour Content: color
>
> Perhaps it is because I grew up with cards, but I would find far
> clearer the following without a label:
>
> 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) : colour, 24 cm
>
> or
>
>
Thomas proposed:
>Extent: 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages)
>Dimensions: 24 cm
>Colour Content: color
Perhaps it is because I grew up with cards, but I would find far
clearer the following without a label:
1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) : colour, 24 cm
or
ix, 45 pages (comic book) : colour, 24 cm
I th
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>From that, I suppose I could add another possibility:
> 300 |a 1 comic book (ix, 45 pages) : |b color ; |c 24 cm
This I think is a good fit.
One could say that neither Extent of Text nor Extent of Still Image apply for a
comic book or graphic novel
Donna Bair-Mundy posted:
> In AACR2 in the 300 $b subfield we recorded the fact that a book
>consisted of all illustrations. RDA has no corresponding rule.
I quoted our head cataloguer earlier saying that when RDA was unclear,
just fall back on AACR2. I would add to that, do what helps your
While we're waiting for this gap to be filled in the RDA toolkit, at our
library we have been creating a kind of hybrid text/still image record for
comic book/graphic novels and books consisting of only illustrated plates.
We use the RDA Extent terms for text in the 300 field and add "chiefly
illu
Thank you for bringing this up again. Here is a link to an earlier posting by
me on this issue, which only generated one response:
https://listserv.collectionscanada.gc.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A2=RDA-L;db70d096.1307
There is some more discussion of the issue in a longer thread that started out
as a query
Aloha,
Having searched the archives I found several message on this topic but
no consensus, as far as I could tell.
In AACR2 in the 300 $b subfield we recorded the fact that a book
consisted of all illustrations. RDA has no corresponding rule.
Looking at various RDA cataloging policy
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